Posted on 01/14/2008 9:08:12 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
It was originally intended as a slur by the ‘we’ll seceed if Bush is reelected’ types, who floated maps of North America with Canada and all the ‘blue states’ on the Pacific Coast, and in the upper midwest and New England colored blue, labeled ‘the United States of Canada’, and the rest of the US colored pale green and labeled ‘Jesusland’.
The author whose endorsement is reported took the name up and embraced it as a way of tweaking the secularists who coined it, rather as Colonial troops took up the song ‘Yankee Doodle’, and embraced it to tweak Red Coats.
I agree.
If Huckabee fizzles, his followers will be looking for another prolife evangelical to fill the void. Hunter fits that bill, no one else in the race is evangelical.
The GOP doesn’t get it. They need to let this faction find a home. The amount of invective aimed at evangelicals is surprising, but then everyone wants their votes.
Huckabee has surged because he won a couple of debates and he’s got evangelical support. If a quick rise can happen to the liberal pro-life evangelical Huckster, it can happen to the conservative pro-life evangelical Hunter.
Prolife evangelicals will be very comfortable in Hunter’s camp, since he’s a prolife evangelical staunch conservative.
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